Re:Lists and Lists: Basics of Lisp through interactive fiction
by II2II on Monday August 11, 2025 @02:07AM
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In order to truly appreciate what you are looking at you may need to: acquire a teletype machine, purge your memory of everything you know about computers (except FORTRAN and COBOL), and travel back to 1976. I guarantee you that you will be astonished by this amazing leap in technology.
More seriously though, Lists and Lists is a concept game from 1996 based upon the text adventure games that were popular in the 1980's. It implements a subset of Scheme for the z-machine, which was an early virtual machine in the JVM sense of a virtual machine (both from a technical perspective, and the "write once, run anywhere" perspective). While it's ability to interpret language was quite limited, it was certainly sufficient for exploring complex virtual worlds.
More seriously though, Lists and Lists is a concept game from 1996 based upon the text adventure games that were popular in the 1980's. It implements a subset of Scheme for the z-machine, which was an early virtual machine in the JVM sense of a virtual machine (both from a technical perspective, and the "write once, run anywhere" perspective). While it's ability to interpret language was quite limited, it was certainly sufficient for exploring complex virtual worlds.